Protecting New Orleans' Environment:
For Our Families, For
Our Future
Follow this link (http://louisiana.sierraclub.org/wasterecycling.asp)
to the Delta Chapter's Recycling and Solid Waste page.
Recycling guide book newly released for the New Orleans area:
Get the new regionwide recycling resource guide
book (PDF 730 Kb - not small but worth it). This comprehensive Guide book lists 39 categories of
items that can be recycled in the New Orleans metro region and where
to bring them.
Recycling e-action
Help the Sierra Club Bring Back the Blue Bins!
17 months after Katrina, the city is facing massive challenges: Rebuilding,
crime, little affordable housing, expanded landfills, and not enough
classes for school-children. Despite these problems, the city is signing
fat contracts for automated twice-weekly garbage pickup and a Disney-fied
French Quarter. Meanwhile, the city has done nothing to reinstate curb-side
recycling, despite the energy savings, and reduced need for landfill
space that recycling provides.
Please visit this website to send a message to the Mayor and City Council
leaders Oliver Thomas and Arnie Fielkow and demand action:
Web
campaign tool provided by the Gulf Restoration Network.
"Repurposed" Art Gives Junk A New, Well, Purpose By Marni Jameson
(From Times-Picayune's 1/27/07 "Inside Out" Section)
Marni Jameson's column gives readers some great ideas for turning "junk" into "art": Architect Steve Dodds, for example,
took a trashed lampshade, "re-covered it with spent subway tickets, and gave the shade a new, more interesting veneer, and
a second life.
"Empty dog food cans? Dodds stripped the labels, connected a row of five cans to a metal rod using thick elastic ponytail
holders, and attached the rod with pushpins to a bulletin board above his desk. The result: a multi-tasking pencil holder."
Recycling update...
The aluminum drinking can recycling project at Sacred Heart. Cans may
be dropped off in the recycling bins on Carondelet Street behind the
school at 4521 St. Charles. We will soon have newspaper recycling too.
Cissy Poindexter
Recycle newspapers and magazines in parking lot of Our Lady of Good
Counsel Catholic Church, corner of Louisiana and Chestnut, there are
bins.
You can recycle your newspapers, metal scrap, cardboard, copper,
paper, aluminum, and all personal electronic devices (including cell
phones) at The Green Project, 2831 Marais St. during business
hours: Tue-Sat, 9-4. phone (504) 945-0240
Recycling Services in New Orleans after Katrina
Wendy King
In the six months since Hurricane Katrina's devastation, New Orleans' city government has cut many of its most essential services. One of these services, under contract to BFI (now part of Allied Waste), is (or was) picking up residents' recyclables one day a week, sorting recyclables, and sending them off to become raw materials for new products. Without a recycling service, most New Orleans area residents probably feel they have no choice but to dump their newspapers, aluminum cans, glass, and plastic into the nearest trashcan, and put those tarp-colored blue plastic bins somewhere else, such as a nearby alley or in the garage.
If you're not ready to put your recycling
principles
somewhere out of reach, here are several area
recycling companies, their addresses, and phone
numbers. If you need to get your accumulated
recyclables out of your house, business, office or
apartment, these companies and their staff are ready
to help:
Airline Salvage, Inc. 6900 Airline Hwy.
Phone number is (504) 737-1100. I talked to Stanley Herrle, He said that
the company has been "open since the storm. . .8 or 10 days after the
storm. We're offering it for sale. . ." The company "put a lot of money
back into the community." There are "lots of people in line. . .Business
is quite good. If you have an unlimited supply of material, we have an
unlimited supply of funds." Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.
to 12:45 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, they're open 8:30 a.m. to
12 noon.
Catalytic Converter Recycling (aka Mark's
Muffler Shop), 5229 St. Claude Avenue
(504) 944-7733. Mark Brink says that his company's "doing really good."
His company's "specialty is removing them (catalytic converters) from
junk cars and wrecks. We can't reinstall them. We take them apart, and
sell the individual parts, such as rhodium, platinum, and palladium. The
outside of a catalytic converter is steel, and is very recyclable." The
hours are 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday to Saturday
<>Farrell and Farrell, 725 3rd Street Kenner.
They recycle clean wood waste only. Phone (504) 305-3826 for days and times.
<>Legacy Project Office Recycling, (504) 865-7220.
According to Legacy Project president Richard Hammant,
the company is "still operating. It took a little bit
of time. People have been returning, pretty
significantly." Legacy specializes in the "paper
product end of it. We're getting a lot of calls from
people wondering what to with plastic, aluminum, and
glass." When I asked about Vista Fibers, he said that
that company "is only operating in Hammond at the
moment."
Riverside Recycling and Disposal, 11266 Hwy
23,
Belle Chasse(504) 656-2232. Owner Kenny Stewart says that
the company's materials recovery facility (MRF) for
paper, cardboard and other recoverable materials, has
closed down, but its buyback center is still open. The
company buys back copper, aluminum cans, brass,
stainless steel and carbon steel (scrap iron). Call
the company for days and times.
Southeast Paper Recycling Corp., 246 St.
George Ave., Jefferson La.
(504)733-1954. According to the Yellow Pages, its paper recycling work
is to "organize and provide containers for newspaper drives (must meet
requirements). I wasn't able to talk to one of this company's staff members.
Southern Scrap Material Co., LLC.
It has 3 locations: 4801 Florida Ave., (504) 942-0341; 2525 Lafitte Avenue
(504) 822-5561; River Road, Westwego (504) 436-4061. It recycles aluminum,
iron, steel, copper, junk cars, tin, brass, and radiators. Call for days
and times.
Veronica Industries LLC (dba All-Scrap Metals)
7 Vets Memorial Blvd., Kenner
(504) 471-0241. They can place roll-off containers at a business. They
pay cash for aluminum cans and all scrap metals. Call them for days and
times.
Duncan Recycling and Hauling (no street
address)
(504) 861-1951. The son and grandson specialize in school paper recycling pickups
and removal (one dozen clients and several business accounts), according
to Mr. Duncan, the founder.
BFI (now part of American Waste) reported
recently that their facility was reopening. Their phone number, (504) 828-5922,
has been disconnected, so I couldn't find out more details about their
plans for resuming recycling pickup services. kM
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